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>Apparently my manager and director decided that I was somehow gaming the system and just milk the company while not making any effort to do my job. >I think t
by mahouse 11y ago
>Apparently my manager and director decided that I was somehow gaming the system and just milk the company while not making any effort to do my job.
>I think the nasty attitude from manager and director was unnecessary: it sucks when superiors don't trust you, treating me as a liar without saying it explicitly.
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>In private discussions I was asked why don't I leave by myself, to which I answered that I'm happy with my Google salary.
- fao_ 11y agoIANAL, but that seems like it should fall under 'Constructive Dismissal'.
- hackerboos 11y agoDifferent laws in Switzerland.
- berntb 11y agoUgh. I'm not going to defend that. But I'd like to give some background to the attitude. Like most others, I've seen burnout. Both personally and in others. This happens to a lot of people in life, maybe most, try to recognize the situation early and to have economic margins to take a year off. I wasn't as bad as some cases I've seen, but I was not a nice person myself then. Let me give an example about what I learned about practical psychology: When you're really stressed and don't realize you're physically sick, then you project that pain; whatever is a problem becomes bigger. The mental logic seems to be "You feel bad. So the things that are stressful must be really bad." Afterwards you realize you've been a person you can't stand. I really hope I won't experience something as bad again, but it taught me a lot. If nothing else, compassion. (This example might not be relevant for the article, since that guy seems to have broken not from being sick but because of a too large work load after a bunch of years.)